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3 Kings 22:46-54 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

46. But the rest of the acts of Josaphat, and his works which he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

47. And the remnant also of the effeminate, who remained in the days of Asa his father, he took out of the land.

48. And there was then no king appointed in Edom.

49. But king Josaphat made navies on the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold: but they could not go, for the ships were broken in Asiongaber.

50. Then Ochozias the son of Achab said to Josaphat: Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. And Josaphat would not.

51. And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David his father: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.

52. And Ochozias the son of Achab began to reign over Israel in Samaria, in the seventeenth gear of Josaphat king of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two years,

53. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

54. He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

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